It was a great honor for me to meet up with Mark Bittner and Judy Irving, who created the acclaimed documentary, "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill," last week.

Mark and Judy were in NYC to introduce and do QA's for several free public showings of their film, and they gracefully agreed to a short interview. We talked about wild parrots generally, urban wildlife, and about the famous "Quaker Boids" that inhabit Brooklyn and in other U.S. cities.

I've posted a short (3 minute) excerpt from this interview on Youtube (link is below). Needless to say, they're very happy that wild Quaker Parrots are living happily in many U.S. cities.

Link to Video Interview:
http://www.brooklynparrots.com/2007/05/mar...ng-discuss.html

Best,
Steve Baldwin
BrooklynParrots.com

Wow Steve that must have been great to be able to meet and talk with Mark and Judy! I just love The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill......thank you so much for sharing this with us!

You're very welcome. I actually used to work in show business, and I guess I naively believed that just because people were "nice" on the screen, they'd be nice in person. Well - I learned that there are a lot of "nice" people out there who really aren't very nice when you meet them!

Mark and Judy, on the other hand, are friendly, intelligent, warm people: exactly the people you see in the film. Even though I'm really "nobody" (at least in the media world), they freely gave of their time during a very busy stop in NYC!

best, -steve

Thank you very much for sharing. I truly enjoyed it. What a great time you must have had.

That is one movie I still haven't seen! Did it ever make it across the Atlantic? Hm, it was based on a book, right? I'll go and have a look at amazon; maybe it's available on DVD.

My birds sat on the boing and watched the interview with fascination! Twice! It really seemed to make them happy. They then ran off, Mo purposefully stepping on Sioux's tail again and went to do some happy chattering on their ladder platform.

I met Mark at the Seattle premiere of the movie, he was a very nice man.

As for it making it across the Atlantic, I'm not really sure. To be honest, I don't even know if it made it up to Canada BUT, it is available on DVD through Amazon.com

Yes, when I went to Amazon, I found the book and the DVD at .com and .co.uk. (Sometimes, I order things through .com, for instance when co.uk does not have it.)

And for those who wonder: .co.uk has two formats of DVD, one for eh, area 1 or whatever, which includes the US, and the other one for Europe. I play them on my PC and it doesn't make a difference there, to my knowledge, but if you play a DVD on an entertainment set, then there are or can be differences.